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Interactive Student Notebooks
Notebook Common Attributes
• Left-Side spiral bound
• Minimum of 100 sheets
• Three-hole punched
• Bring to every class
• Organizational pages
• Title and Unit pages
Title Pages
Unit Pages
Right Side Activities• Teacher Assigned Activities
• Title and Date for each activity
• Notes (discussion, teacher, collaborative, reading – SQ3R/KWL)
• Historical essays, directed personal responses, journaling, lab reports, self-assessments
• Unit standards and outcomes
Notebook Assignment: US Constitution Connections to Today
Find a newspaper article that describes an action carried out by one branch of the US Federal Government. Highlight the sentence or sentences you think relate to something you have learned in this unit. Paste it on the left side. Then, on the right side, write a summary of the article that includes:
1. a sentence that states whether the action was carried out by the legislative, executive, or judicial branch.
2. a description of the power(s) that the branch exercised.3. an explanation of how the power(s) could be checked by one
of the other two branches.4. writing that is free of spelling and grammatical errors.
Notes
Historical Essays
Left-Side Activities
• Time Out Activities are student created activities that are unassigned
• Graphic organizers, webs, Venn Diagrams, cartoons, maps, illustrated timelines, dictionary entries, equations, newspaper articles/research
• Use lots of color to illustrate
Mind Notes
Wordgrams
Point of View Drawings
Mind Notes
Mind
Notes
Point of View Cartoon
Illustrated Dictionary
Equations
Invitation
Map
Articles and research must be processed
• highlight important parts
• describe the connection
Evaluation CriteriaHow? Holistic, 6+1 Rubrics
How Often? 2-4 weeks or after each assignment
For What? Quality, completeness, presentation, organization
Who? Student self-assess and reflection; teacher
evaluation; parent evaluation
DATE OF EVALUATION: ______ Student Teacher Evaluation Evaluation Quality and Completeness
All class notes and right-side work are completed and high quality, even for days when you were absent
All left-side work is completed and of high quality 20 25 30 40 44 Needs Improvement Fair Good Excellent Visual Appearance and Organization
Left- and right-side work is organized and neat Effective highlighting and use of color
20 25 30 40 44 Needs Improvement Fair Good Excellent Extra Credit
Newspaper cutouts, drawings, graphics, or unassigned Personal responses
Other items 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 Needs Improvement Fair Good Excellent Student Comments Total Teacher Comments
Teacher Considerations• it takes about 7-12 minutes on average to evaluate each notebook (if checking at end of 3-5 weeks)• planning is essential before the year begins so that instruction in the first month includes a review of various ways to express and link concepts • give students time to evaluate others and to self-reflect (especially after their 1st check)• instruct students to skip 5 pages for the table of contents after they create their title page